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(syn. speciosa), which grows 3 to 4 ft. high, and bears fragrant 

 scarlet flowers in late summer, is much grown. It likes equal parts 

 of peat and loam, with sand, and may be propagated by cuttings in 

 a warm house under a bell-glass in summer. Cut hard back after 

 flowering. 



Room Plants. With care in watering (see Watering), and venti- 

 lating in such a way as to provide fresh air without a cutting draught, 

 many plants may be grown successfully in rooms (see Aralia, Aspi- 

 distra, Ferns, Ficus (India-rubber Plant), and palms among foliage 

 plants ; , and Chrysanthemums, Cinerarias, Clivias, Cytisus, Francoa 

 ramosa, Fuchsias, Zonal Geraniums, Primulas, and various bulbs 

 among flowering plants). The fear of injury from 

 plants in sick-rooms is not well based, but such 

 apartments should always be well ventilated, both 

 for the benefit of patient and plant. Strong-smell- 

 ing flowers should be avoided. Naked gas burners 

 are bad for plants, but where incandescent burners 

 are used the injury is very small. Sheets of news- 

 paper may be spread over the plants on cold nights. 



Rosa, Rose (rose, from the Celtic rhod, red. Ord. 

 Rosaceae). An immense genus, giving as it does 

 the beautiful Hardy Perpetual, Tea, Hybrid Tea, 

 and other Roses of our flo\yer beds, the climbers 

 we use for walls, arbours, pillars, and pergolas, and 

 a considerable number of beautiful species. It 

 may be of interest to refer to a few of the species 

 which are grown in gardens. Banksiae is the 

 white Banksian Rose (see the Botanical Magazine, 

 A PILLAR ROSE WITH t. 1954); there is a yellow form, lutea; these are 

 MOOTS S S HOR?SE N D G P r etty wall Roses, which must only be pruned to the 

 extent of thinning out some of the oldest wood, as 

 they flower on shoots of two years old or more. Bracteata (Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1377) is the Macartney Rose, a dwarf species with white 

 flowers. Canina is the Dog Rose of the hedges. Centifolia is the 

 Cabbage Rose, of which there are many varieties, including muscosa, 

 the moss Rose ; there are several garden forms of the latter. Dama- 

 scena is the Damask Rose, which is certainly one of the parents of 

 our modern H.P.s; the variety versicolor has red and white flowers, 

 and is called Gloria Mundi. 

 Gallica provincialis is the 

 Provence Rose. Indica is 

 the China or Monthly Rose, 

 and its variety odorata is one 

 of the parents of our modern 

 Tea Roses. Sinica (syn. laevi- 

 gata) (Bot. Mag., t. 2847) is 



the White Cherokee Rose. RoSE CUTTINGS INSERTED. 



Lutea, a dwarf yellow species, 



is the Austrian Brier (Bot. Mag., 363). Moschata is the Musk 

 Rose. Multiflora (syn. polyantha) is the parent of many of our 

 modern climbing Roses. Repens (syn. arvensis) capreolata is the 



